In my case, at least, "intimidated" is the closest description - the full text is more "oh, excellent, new post by JCB, this looks really interesting, wow, I understand many of the words and maybe 20% of the topic; I'll definitely want to learn more about this some day, so I can better appreciate what's going on here..."
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